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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stage was set. Until the final whistle sounded at Princeton, the Crimson eleven hadn't really been thinking about Yale. It was too big, too powerful, too far removed. And always there had been a more immediate task at hand. And yet, after an easy rout of Brown, here they were. A Cinderella team facing the might Eli. Somehow it was impossible, and in the euphoric week before The Game people seemed to float from place to place. Harvard sophomores got rich with tickets going for $200 each. The pundits were almost too numb to write about the biggest college...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: And Then We Won; Big Hole Was Dead | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...third quarter it was over. For the pundits, the Yalies, the old grads and those who had never seen the Crimson play before, and even for the coach. But for a few hopelessly naive romantics in the stands and about 20 players on the field...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: And Then We Won; Big Hole Was Dead | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

Forty-five seconds to go. Harvard down by 16. The Crimson on the Eli 38-yard line. A penalty. A run by tackle Fritz Reed, Bingo. A score from Champi. to Freeman who beat the Eli hands down to the end zone. We could tie. I could barely...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: And Then We Won; Big Hole Was Dead | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...response to the cancellation of the Design School's Urban Violence course, nearly one quarter of the tenured members of the Harvard Faculty signed a statement on academic freedom. The 113 Faculty members placed an ad in the CRIMSON asking the administration "to take measures appropriate to assure the inviolability of instruction and examinations in all duly approved courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: But 'Co-education' Dominated Dining Hall Conversations... | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...Leland. "The friendships were formed were formed in our freshman and sophomore years." For those who were in the speed up the last years of college life were warped beyond recognition. Most of the student organizations folded or were transformed into war college institutions. The >Lampoon ceased publication, the CRIMSON was turned into the Armed Services News, and most of the clubs closed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of 1944 Returns; Things Still the Same | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

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